Whether embarking on a new Alfresco project or just maintaining an existing system, TSG will typically recommend new clients conduct an Alfresco Health Check on an annual basis. An Alfresco Health Check is typically a 2 to 3-day project where experienced Alfresco technical architects will visit onsite and review the Alfresco system. This post will detail the typical activities associated with an Alfresco Health Check engagement, as well as typical findings to give readers an idea of the things ... [Continue Reading]

Chicago, IL. – April 4, 2018 – Technology Services Group, Inc. (TSG) the leading provider of content management solutions and services for the Fortune 1000, announced today the recognition of both the OpenContent Management Suite and OpenMigrate as Alfresco’s 2017 Solutions of the Year for the Americas. TSG was recognized for both products as they have been critical components in multiple successful large client implementations of Alfresco, particularly in the insurance and manufacturing ... [Continue Reading]

OpenAnnotate continues to be one of our most popular software products with new features being added by multiple clients. This post will highlight the new features including streamline viewing, thumbnail navigation, PDF manipulation, updates to video annotation, redaction updates, localizing and adding the freehand drawing tool.
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TSG's Learning Zone has been refreshed to make it easier for users to explore our collection of demos, webinars and solutions. You can quickly search for content by Industry, Product and Solution categories. There are more enhancements on the way, so check back often.
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Twenty years ago on January 18th, 1996, Technology Services Group (TSG) was incorporated. This post will share some of my thoughts on 20 years, with some shout-outs to notable alumni that helped make TSG to what it has become today. ... [Continue Reading]

Some of the recent viewers of the TSG web site might have noticed a small change as the Download option and supporting pages have been replaced with a “Getting Started” page. While we at TSG remain committed to providing open source ECM solutions for our customers on Alfresco, Documentum or Hadoop, we are evolving from a “anyone can download at anytime” to more of Visible Source licensing model which includes source code with a controlled distribution and a small cost component to cover support ... [Continue Reading]

TSG hosted Alfresco's Chicago Lunch & Learn in our downtown office on November 20th. The turnout was great, with over 40 attendees, including existing Alfresco Enterprise and Community users, representatives from Alfresco's sales and engineering teams, as well as those who are not yet Alfresco users, all looking to learn more about Alfresco. ... [Continue Reading]

TSG will once again be in attendance at Alfresco Summit this year. We have a lot of new /existing clients attending, and looking forward to educate attendees on solutions we have built on top of the Alfresco platform. Be sure not to miss our presentations during Summit:
Wednesday - September 24th
Lightning Talks #1 - 3:00-3:40 @ Seacliff D
Migrating from Legacy ECM Repositories to Alfresco
Plugin-Free Annotation in Alfresco Share
Thursday - September 25th
Case Study: Curing Cancer with ... [Continue Reading]

In the fall of 2012, Technology Services Group flew up to Winnipeg, Manitoba with Alfresco to understand CMHR's vision for their museum. More than a decade in the making, and still under construction, we were able see the vision for the numerous digitally driven exhibits being designed and built, the need for an API to interface with all of the exhibits, how digital assets which would be licensed and owned, and how a core repository would be required to centralize all of these assets. The ... [Continue Reading]

The fall is an exciting time at TSG. Not only do we officially start our new college hires the Tuesday after Labor Day, but September begins our recruiting efforts. This year we are headed to Notre Dame, Purdue, Michigan, Michigan State, Bradley, DePauw as well as Miami of Ohio. Each of the last two years, we have posted blogs specifically for recruits including 2012’s What to look for in that first job and 2013’s What to be concerned about for that first job. As many of our recruits have a ... [Continue Reading]

Chicago, IL. – June 3, 2014 Technology Services Group, Inc. the leading provider of open Enterprise Content Management solutions for the Fortune 1000, announced today their recognition as Alfresco’s 2014 Americas Partner of the Year. Since partnering with Alfresco in 2006, TSG has successfully migrated a wide range of customers in a variety of industries from legacy ECM implementations to Alfresco highlighted by multiple large migrations in 2013 and 2014 . TSG’s exceptional performance for ... [Continue Reading]

Just a quick announcement - Dynamsoft announced today that OpenCapture has won the Grand Prize in their SDK Innovation contest! @Dynamsoft tweeted:
We're thrilled to win this award! OpenCapture is the desktop scanning module within HPI that makes it easy for users to scan paper documents into an ECM repository. Check out the demo video embedded above or in the TSG Learning Zone and let us know your thoughts in the comments!
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TSG spent last week in Atlanta for the annual Americas Partner Kickoff event. Alfresco has a great partner community and it is always a great time to catch up the folks at Alfresco and all of the other partners as well. This year, TSG was awarded the Alfresco Americas Top Growth Partner for 2013. ... [Continue Reading]

We are excited to announce that TSG has been recognized a Platinum Alfresco partner!
Below is the official announcement:
Chicago, IL – January 17, 2013 - Technology Services Group (TSG), a leading provider of products and services that extend enterprise content management (ECM) platforms, today announced that Alfresco, the open source platform for content management, has granted it Platinum partner status.
This announcement came following TSG’s significant year of growth in sales and new ... [Continue Reading]

At TSG, much like other companies, we are in the middle of our fall college recruiting season. With campus interviews complete, we have recruits from six different schools coming in to visit our office over the next two weeks. For our visiting college hires, as well as long-time readers of our blog, this post will share some of our thoughts on what students should look for as they compare career options between different companies. This post is not a complete list but highlight several items ... [Continue Reading]

A quick reminder to all of upcoming Chicago / Alfresco events in the next couple of months. Hope to see everyone there.
Alfresco Enterprise Content Roundtable - October 2nd, 2012
Alfresco will provide an update on the recent reTSG will provide an overview on several Alfresco case studies
Location: Marriott - 540 N Michigan Avenue. Chicago, IL 60611
Register Here
Alfresco User Group Meeting - October 11th, 2012
TSG will be giving away a free pass to DevCon in November! If anyone is ... [Continue Reading]

TSG's work with the New York Philharmonic Digital Archives was recently named 2012 Alfresco Implementation of the Year. We wanted to thank the team at the NY Philharmonic for giving TSG the opportunity to work with them and providing the vision of what the Digital Archives is today. The digital archives provides a perfect example of how open source technologies can be leveraged to create a robust and scalable enterprise solution. Using OpenMigrate for high volume content ingestion, ... [Continue Reading]

Tune in tomorrow for a TSG webinar - "Using Alfresco for Controlled Documentation". We will focus on common functionality required for a controlled documentation system and how Alfresco can be leveraged as the platform to meet these needs. We'll be showcasing our open source products, including HPI and OpenAnnotate, working from an Alfresco repository.
Click here to register. A recording of the webinar will also be available on the Alfresco site. ... [Continue Reading]

The New York Philharmonic will be hosting a Google Hangout tomorrow to discuss the new release of Digital Archives material from 1943-1970 (International Era). Scholars from around the world will be participating to discuss the content, and the historic tours from that time period under Leonard Bernstein.
The event will start at 10:30 EST, click here for more information! ... [Continue Reading]

In January, TSG and United Cerebral Palsy of Chicago (UCP) was featured on ABC Channel 7 in Chicago, looking at how TSG has worked with UCP to donate our expertise to create applications such as myInfinitec and InfiniTEXT. Both solutions were built leveraging the Alfresco platform and are hosted on the Amazon cloud.
TSG has been working pro-bono with UCP for a number of years has been a great way to utilize our content management expertise to directly provide value to UCP's clients, comprised ... [Continue Reading]

Technology Services Group held the first Alfresco User Group Meeting last Thursday at out offices. Thanks to those that attended. It was great to see others in the Chicago area that are passionate and excited about the Alfresco platform and the possibilities it provides. The meeting provided a more casual way to interact with fellow Alfrescans, over pizza and beer of course! A special thanks to Jeff Potts for making the trip to help kick things off. Jeff provided a great overview of the Alfresco ... [Continue Reading]

TSG has several clients using Documentum as a repository and a custom front end application for consumption of the records or renditions of records. In most cases there is a mechanism in place such as SCS (Site Caching Services) or TSG’s OpenMigrate PUMA (See CIS Case Study for more details). While a typical Documentum application (ex: Webtop) provides a “one stop shop” for authors and approvers, the interface can be challenging when “consumers” are just looking for quick search and ... [Continue Reading]

One of the more interesting usages for machine learning is the potential to speed up and add efficiency to the indexing of documents. At TSG, we are currently adding this capability to our document indexing application. This post will describe the current methods of indexing from the major vendors and how an ECM 2.0 solution […]

Too often, migrating to Alfresco can be seen as a massive undertaking where the migration effort means moving all the content, integrations and people to the new platform in a migrate all at once, “Big Bang” approach. Given the effort to move all the different components, along with training the users on a new system, […]